First Microsoft offered free Python courses, and now Google is offering a free courses to help promising programmers learn Kotlin, the fastest-growing programming language on Microsoft-owned GitHub.
It's an initiative from Google's to shift Android app makers from Oracle-owned Java to Kotlin, the official Android programming language from JetBrains, a Czech-based integrated development environment (IDE) maker.
Jocelyn Becker, Senior Program Manager for Google Developer Training said on September 20, 2019 that Google has released a Kotlin bootcamp and Developing Android apps in Kotlin codelabs courses.
Google, in partnership with Udacity, has been offering codelab courses since last year. These are video-based courses for Kotlin Bootcamp and How to build Android apps in Kotlin. Now they have revamped these courses to publish them as tutorial-based codelab courses. More than 2.5 million users have worked through Google codelabs like this just this year.
In the Kotlin Bootcamp course, you will learn to program in Kotlin, beginning with the basics, and working up to functional manipulation such as extending built-in functions. Once you start feeling comfortable programming in Kotlin, you can dive right into building Android apps. This course takes you from "Hello World" to connecting with the world.
Overall, you will create and work with more than 10 apps, so, by the end of this course, you will have a portfolio of example code that you can use to realize your own amazing app ideas! So what are you waiting for, start the Kotlin bootcamp right away!
